Alveston
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Alveston New Church of St Helen's Alveston is a village, civil parish and former royal manor in South Gloucestershire, England, inhabited in 2014 by about 3,000 people. The village lies south of Thornbury and north of Bristol. Alveston is twinned with Courville sur Eure, France. The civil parish also includes the villages of Rudgeway and Earthcott.
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Place details
- Locality
- Alveston
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,656
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Alveston
- UK place.static_image_name
- DM2025 Alveston, South Gloucestershire.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Alveston, looking east-northeast
- UK place.population
- 3,048
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Alveston
- UK place.unitary_england
- South Gloucestershire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Gloucestershire
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Thornbury and Yate
- UK place.post_town
- Bristol
- UK place.postcode_district
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +2953
- Image
- The Ship Inn, Alveston - geograph.org.uk - 881128.jpg
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- Zeschdorf
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- Neolithic to Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Descent of the manor
- Domesday Book
- Illness of William Rufus
- FitzWarin
- Legend of Fouke le Warin
- De Gloucester
- Corbet
- Denys
- Modern Alveston
- Marlwood School
- Two St Helens Churches
- Sources
- Further reading
- Notes and references
- External links
thumb|250px|Alveston New Church of St Helen's Alveston is a village, civil parish and former royal manor in South Gloucestershire, England, inhabited in 2014 by about 3,000 people. The village lies south of Thornbury and north of Bristol. Alveston is twinned with Courville sur Eure, France. The civil parish also includes the villages of Rudgeway and Earthcott.
==Neolithic to Bronze Age==